Hickman High School - Bluff Yearbook (Hickman, KY)

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Class Prophecy Last, but certainly not least, is, and shall remain in my memory, the best friend I ever had. They say that the best of friends sometimes fight, well we must be good friends because we've fought enough. I guess by now you know I’m talking about Sara Don Henry. Now that I’m through I guess I’ll go collect my $50, 000 I made this year. CHARLES HALTERMAN

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Class Prophecy It is now the year 1961 and I have just finished the regular baseball season. I have been playing for the New York Yankees. We are starting our first game of the World Series this week in St. Louis. Guess who is pitching for the Cardinals — “Frog” Wilkerson. He has won 20 games for the Cards this season. I flew from New York Yesterday and met Harriett Townsend on the plane. She told me all about her big plans for becoming the top designer of the U.S. She was returning from her New York Annual Designer’s Convention. I enjoyed seeing her. We stopped in Washington for refueling; several passengers got on. We noticed a familiar face--that of Claudy Thomas. He is now the Editor of the Washington Sun Daily. The three of us had a grand time together until we parted in St. Louis. After I checked in the Statler Hotel I went to a Night Club to dine. As I walked in the head waiter approached me--it was Royce Ritchie. We talked while I ordered. Suddenly he had a big surprise for me. He brought over Betty Watson and her husband. They told me that Julia Terrett and her husband were also up for the game. It is now the big day for the big game. While I warmed up I heard familiar voices. It was three old buddies; Sam Adams, Glenn Sargent, and Ken Blincoe. They were having a grand time and said that they had just robbed a bank. I believed them. I also noticed two more excited fans; Mr. and Mrs. Boyce. Mrs Ross is the former Jo Ann McClellan. I noticed six children with them. Boyce jokingly said he was raising a family to fit his 15 chair shop. Well, it is a week later and the Yankees brought home another pennant. I started to Hickman on the bus. Martha Williams climbed aboard. She is the personal secretary of the President of the Atomic Power Plant at Paducah. As we rode along on the bus we noticed several signs stating the new “ Black Jackson planation. James and Gerald have done well. Billy Joe Roberts met me as I got off the bus in Hickman. Gee, it was good to be home. He took me down to see his new modern car business. Holt Jones was there looking over a big car. Said he was trying to buy a car to fit his large family. After our chat with Holt, “Bunyan and I decided to go see the movie. As we entered the show we met Ernestine Choate, who is now the Assist- ant Manager. In the lobby we were delighted in seeing the former Patsy Sue Williams, whose husband is one of uncle sam’s boys. With her was the former Faydell Morrow. Her husband owns the largest gold mine in Alaska. The picture show was very interesting but I enjoyed the news reel most. I was surprised to find that “Hassel Cartwright, a very famous poet, is now in England. However, I was more surprised when I saw that “Bubba” wright is now a football player on the University of Kentucky team. Before I returned to New York I wanted very much to see two more of my old classmates. First I wanted to see “Salty” King who now owns the most beautiful and modern grocery store I have ever seen. He has certainly done well, and I am very proud of him. 23

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Class Pessimist For some unfortunate reason I was picked for Class Grumbler, this year. Just why did this happen to me? Now that I've been picked for it, boy, am I going to grumble. First thing comes English. Wny do they teach English? Most people know how to talk, at least I do. .Lets take the study hall, now. They should let you sleep instead of making you strain your eyes looking at books. You can't walk down the hall without running into Mitch . He says Where are you supposed to be? You'll tell him. Well, get there, he'll say. And another thing I don't like is having to run to the office every time you're tardy or miss a day. Now take Miss Caldwell, you can't help it if you're tardy four or five times a week, can you? She used to be young once, didnH she? 1 don't see why some people make A's in school. I never make over a C. If I'm lucky, 1 might make a B. Most of it would be luck, if I did. Why do some people get out of school and the rest of us have to stay in? They should have at least one Holiday a week. Oh! but no, you must stay and study your little bitty seif to insanity. I don't see why they don't run a bus to the houses in the winter to keep us from freezing stiff. Of course, some of the kids have cars to go to school in. Well, I have two cars, too, my great big, good two feet. We never get to do anything at this school except study and study. At tim2s when I go to bed at night, all I see is books, and more books. Why, I don't see what keeps kids from going raving mad at school. You raise up and ask some- body passing by, Say, what time is it? They'll say, What do you care, your not going any place, are you? Then that makes me very unhappy. In the summer time the bugs and mosquitoes are so bad, when you shut the door, they start coming in the windows. Then you shut the windows and they start coming in the door again. Life sho does get worrisome, don't it? JOHN C. WRIGHT